Visaginas: toward cultural planning | kultūrinis planavimas

1 February 2017u? :)

Autorius: Laimikis.lt

Together with our partners at Culturability platform we are in the process of developing a model of cultural planning in the Baltic sea region. We see a huge potential in Visaginas, the youngest city in Lithuania, with well developed cultural infrastructure and a “cosmic’ energy of the local cultural actors. To start building a local and regional network of stakeholders involved into cultural planning, we started a dialogue with cultural organisations in Visaginas: working meetings, swot-based discussions, interviews with cultural actors, photo-walks and workshops.

The capacity in terms of infrastructure for cultural events and energy of local actors is cosmic. Interlinks between the institutions and actors are needed for livable eco-system. Upcoming: Visaginas presentation by Oksana Denisenko (Laimikis.lt).

ECF Research & Development Grant

2o15: "Co-Design Workshops: Urban Furniture for Sharing" (aka Open Code Urban Furniture) brings together urban practitioners and active representatives of local neighbourhoods for developing open source design solutions for public spaces. The project is a part of creative cluster, formed with radarq.net & European Alternatives.

Co-Urbanism: Citizen Participation

A collaborative project "Citizen Participation in Urban Governance: Tools and Cases", launched in the end of 2014 by Laimikis.lt and Minsk urban platform aims to develop a regional network of NGOs and active citizens, involved into the development of urban spaces and local communities.

• 2o14, July 25-27: Summer school "Creative and social practices in public space", St.Petersburg. Tutorship.

• 2o14, June 20-21: Hosting an international Grundtvig partnership seminar-workshop "Participatory and Arts-based Research Approaches: the engaging tactics of collecting and communicating ethnographic data", Vilnius.

• 2o14, June 13-20: Public lecture & training session for the participants of the Kaukas summer school "Reanimation of public space", Kaunas.

• 2o13 Oct 2-4: Strategies of preserving the old and creating the new in the urban spaces: Cases of the Baltic region Countries (New Urban Topologies, the Center of Contemporary Art and Urbanism Fargfabriken & TOK), Saint Petersburg, Russia

• 2o13, April 24-28: Laimikis team visits their colleagues in Berlin and explores community gardens initiatives.

• 2o13, Jan 23 - Feb 2: Laimikis team visits their Portuguese colleagues (ICE), who develop a regional project, focused on actualization of historical memory and cultural heritage. Castelo de Vide school, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Ferreira do Alentejo municipality and several museums and galleries around the region are involved.